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C. DRAKE.

HOSPITAL BEDSTEAD ATTAGHMENT.

Patented Jan. 18, 1887.

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CAROLINE DRAKE, OF AVON, ILLINOIS.

HOSPITAL BEDSTEAD ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION orming part of Letters Patent No. 355,352, dated January18, 1887.

Application filed June 10, 1886. Serial No. 204.818. (No nrodol.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAROLINE DRAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Avon, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, haveinvented a Machine for Handling Sick People and Invalids while in Bed,of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an attachment which may beapplied to an ordinary bed for the purpose of lifting siek persons whendesirable to remove them or change the bed clothing, said attachmentalso being adapted to bring the body to a sitting position 01' to shiftit to either side.

My invention consists in details of construction described below, andpointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my improvementarranged in connection with a bed and the means of operatingit. Fig. 2is a front elevation looking toward the head-board, the foot-board beingremoved. Fig. 3 is a like view looking toward the footboard, thehead-board being removed. Fig. 4 is a detached plan viewof the sectionalcanvas sheet and its hinged frame. Fig. 5 is a detached end view of thesheet and frame,looking from the foot and showing how either side may belifted up. Fig. 6 is a detached side View of the sheet and frame,showing the head sections both lifted up together. Fig. 7 is a detailView showing the mannerof attaching removably the Operating-cords to thesheetl frame.

Like letters refer to like parts.

A is a bed, in which a Z) are the head and foot boards.

B (see Fig. 4) is a sheet of canvas or suitable material, made in threesections, c o' 02, the smaller being for the upper portiony of the bodyand the larger one for the lower. It is important to have thehead-section in two parts, so that if a person is lying on one side ofthe sheet the body may be raised without changing its position orinterfering with the pillow under the head. Each section hasturned-under or oorded edges d d, and are removably fastened to asurrounding frame, O, by cord-loops e e passing over pins f f on theframe; but any suitable means of attachment, such as short straps andbuckles, will answer. llhe head-Sections are held together by buttons.locked open by a pin, y, used in r and detachable loops r', and haverespectively two eyes, p p, and ashort stiffening-rod, p', the lat-terbeing surrounded by the turnedunder Canvas and extending entirely alongthe upper edge of section c' cwherehy, by means ofoperati ngcords,described below, one or both of said sections may be raisedindependently of the frame O. Between the head and foot sections aresuitably arranged pieoes of rubber sheeting,8 8, to prevent soiling whena bed- 'pan is used. V

The frame O is divided into four seotions by the hinges f'', so that itwill allow the sheet to come into varying positions when they areoperated together; hut the side hinges are not often used, and theirpurpose is mainly to allow the frame to be packed away in small compassor to allow the foot-section of the sheet to be raised alone. Any of thehinges may be connection with them.

Inside the head and foot boards of the bed standards D D'v are placed,braced on the floor by the U-shaped feet or tripods h 71., which shouldbe of suflicient extension to prevent the standards from moving inwardlyor laterally. The standards are also vertically extensible by means ofa-tongue-and-soeketjoint, t, and an adjusting-pin, t'. (See Figs. 2 and3.) Between the standards runs a shaft, E, provided, near the standardD,with a pulley, i, and near D' with a turn-wheel, lc, pulley fi', and aratche't and pawl, Z Z', (see Fig. 1,) for holding the sheet or itsSections at any desired height.

To fit different-sized beds the shaft is made extensible by a joint, tz,(see Fig. 1,) similar to that in the standards. From either pulley cordsmm' extend down, and a triangular cord, WW, is fastened or knotted at nto the cords m m', and extend, respectively, to. the head and foot offrame 0,01' the cord m2 may engage with the eyes 1) p on thehead-Sections of the sheet to raise one or both of them, as desired,prior to which said seotions must befproperly disen` gaged from frame O.rllhe lower ends of the cords m2 m3 may have hooks 0, detachablyengaging with eyebolts o' on the ends of said frame, or with the eyes pp on the Sections c' 02 of the sheet.

Now it will be seen that by releasing cord m8 at the foot and properlydisengaging the head,-

seetions of the sheet from frame C the cord m2 can engage with the eyespp and raise thehead- Sections to a position similar to Fig. 6, When aperson Will be in a sitting position, or this could be aeeomplishedWithout disengaging the head-seetions by unloeking the side framehingesand attaehing the eords to the eyebolts at the head of the frame, and itWill also be seen that one of the head-Sections of the sheet could beeasily raised by releasing the loops 7"' and attaehing cord m2 to theeyes 1) p. By releasing one end of eords 'nt2 nr* from loops as the casemay be, and unloekingthe endframe` hinges, the frame and sheet unitedmay be turned to either side to shift the person, as in Fig. or thismay, perhaps, be suffieiently done by releasing cordmentirely and oneend of eord m. XVhen the side hinges of theframe al'e loeked, the endhinges unlocled, and both ends of cords'm'tmfx attaehed, the person maybe raised entirely from the bed and kept from falling out by theinelined sides of the sheet, whieh will be in asimilar position to thedotted lines of Fig'. 5, and if all the hinges are loeked the personwill he raised on a substantially fiat sheet. By releasing the eord m?and unloeking the side hinges the foot-section c may be alone raised byattaohing the cord m3 to eyebolts 0' at theifoot of the frame O.

Having fully deseribed my invention, What I other, and having,respeetively, eyes p p and stiifeninfr-rods 2' J', the hookedoperating-eord m2, th e turnshaft, and th e standards for supporting theturn'shaft, Whereby said head-Sections maybe raised singlyortogetherindependently of the frame, as set forth. o

2. The combination, with a bed, of a frame, O, hinged together at thesides and ends, as shown, and provided with hinge-looks g and eyebolts0', a removably'attaehed sheet, B, having a foot-section and twohead-Sections, the latter adapted to be united or separated, andhaving,1'espeetively,eyesp and stifi'ening-rods p', thehookedoperating-eords, and the turnshaft, whereby the head-Sections ofthe sheet may be lifted singl y or together independently of the frame,or,by properly looking 01' unlocking the hinges, the whole sheet, eitherlongi' tudinal half, or the foot-section may be raised i in con neetionwith the frame, as set forth.

3. lThe sheet B, eomposed of section c, rubber portions 8, and Sectionsa' c', the latter detaehable from the frame and each other, and havingeyes p and stfitening-rods p', combined With the loelr-hinged frame O,having sereweyes 0', the hooked cords mi mi, thelongitudinally-extensible shaft having a turn Wheel, pnlleys, a ratehetand pawl, the tripods h h, land the vertieally-extensihle standards DD', braced by the said tripods h h, as set forth.

OAROLINE DRAKE.

Witnesses:

NAUM H. DRAKE, IRA M. W001).

